The Life of Thomas Aquinas: Scholasticism and Higher Education

Reading Time: 10 minutes By Katya Konopacki, St. Louis University Thomas Aquinas is regarded as one of the most influential thinkers in the period of medieval Scholasticism and is credited as the father of the Thomistic school of theology. He was born circa 1225 in Roccasecca, Italy, near Aquino, the youngest of eight children. At the tender age of […]